Why We Broke Up

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up. Min has written a letter explaining why. She’s delivering it with a box that’s full of the debris of their relationship: two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, Ed’s protractor, some sugar they stole, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings and the rest of it. Each item is illustrated and accounted for; each memory played out until the heartbreaking end. Min will dump the box on Ed’s porch – but it is Ed who is being dumped. This is the story of why they broke up. This carefully crafted YA title is illustrated in full colour, printed on high quality stock with a flapped paperback cover.

A moving story about a relationship breakdown which is a topic not often touched on. Focus in this genre is usually on romance, love, desire and the start of something. This is an important story about the realities of things ending. It is realistic and mature and speaks directly to teenagers about real life experience.

Why We Broke Up is the highly anticipated collaboration between internationally best-selling author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and renowned illustrator Maira Kalman.